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A. O. ROOD.

ART 0F MAKING HAMMOGKS. y ,N o. 296,627. Y Patented Apr. 8, 1884,.

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UNITED STATES ALBERT O. ROOD, OF YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO VINCENT P. TRAVERS,

' V OF SAME PLACE.

ART oF MAKING HAMMocKs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,627, datedApril 8, 1884.

Application tiled October 31, 1883.

To @ZZ whom t may concern..

Be it known that I, ALBERT O. Roon, a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of N ew York, have invented an Improvement in the Art of Making Hammocks, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being made manu facture.

enabled to form the end lohps of the hammock of a continuous thread or cord, taking it from a ball or hank without requiring any part of it to he detached from such ball or hank until the complete end structure shall have been finished.

In making the hammock ends I proceed as follows: Assumingthe bodyAof the hammock, which is shown in. Fig. l, and its selvage B to have been first iinished in any known manner, so as to form the eyes a a at each end of the body A, (such eyes a a being represented also in the diagrams Figs and 3,) I place this body, so finished, on a platform, C, which has two pins, d and j', projecting verticallyY from it near each end, as shown in Fig. l. I then take the loose end of a ball of twine or cord, D, and tie it to the pin f, then draw it, as at t, to the irst eye a, then double the cord and draw the doubled part gthrough said rst eye (No model.)

a, which is nearest the pin f, as is indicated in Fig. 2, and the looped part g of the double cord, which has thus been drawn through the eye a, is then placed around the pins (Zand f, in the manner indicated in Fig. 3. I then take the cord loosely from the ball, place it once more around the pin fin single strand,as shown at It in Fig. 3, and then double it again, drawing the doubled partit-hrough' the next eye a. I then place this loop i also over the pins df. The cord is then laid singly around the pins d and f, and is then taken from j" to the next eye a, all as indicated by the line j in Fig. 3, and is then doubled, forming the loop m.,whicl1 is next introduced through the third eye a. Then this loop m is laid over the pins dandf. Thereupon the oord is againlaid singly around the pins d f, as shown at o, Fig.V 1, doubled, passed throughthe fourth eye a, as shown at r; Fig. 1, and is then proceeded with in the same manner until all the eyes a have heen engaged. When the last eye, a2, on the hammock is reached, the same method of connection is pursued, with the exception that the looped cord n at this place is inserted through said eye o2 from the opposite side-that is to say, in the lower part of Fig. l this loop a is shown to be introduced through the eye of from the left-hand side.l while all the other loops, g, z'. m., and r, &c., were introduced through their respective eyes from the righthand side. Inally, when this has been accomplished, tie the free end p (see Fig. l) of `the cord, which is now out off from the ball, to the rst end of the cord that was tied to the \pin f, and slip the cord and its several loops off the pins d and f, whereupon I bind the outer ends of this looped end structure to form the terminal eye s, which is shown at the upper part of Fig. l. Each end of the hammock is treated in the same manner.

' It will be perceived that by this process I am enabled to draw continuously for each end of the hammock from the hall of twine or cord without requiring any part ofV the cord to be cut until the complete end structure has been finished; and it will likewise be perceived that hy this construction I engage each eye c of the hammock with a doubled thread or cord for the end loops. I nd by experience that this construction can be more rapidly and economically carried into effect than any prevously-known manner of forming the end loops.

rlhe art of making a hammock7 which oonl one of the eyes a of the hammoolcbody, thenr forming the loop g, then doubling the oord again and introducing it through another eye a of the hammock-body, then forming the loop m, then passing said loop m through the third eye a of the hammoolobody, and oontinuing in this manner untilall the eyes a at the end of the hammock-body have -been engaged with the loops formed by the doubled oord, tying the ends of the cord, and7 nally,.

binding the outer ends of this looped structure and forming the terminal eye s, substantially as described.

ALBERT O. ROOD.

W'itnesses:

JOHN C. TUNBRIDGE, WILLY G. E. SoHULTz. 

